Which, of course, we found out later, and as I understand it now, was because he had another life. He just couldn't seem to settle down into a normal job. HECHE: Because he didn't have a job other than being a choir director. GROSS: Why was the family always in debt? So that just kind of happened by accident. ![]() And he was a wonderful pianist and organist and had a beautiful voice and a talent for making people sing. But he just - whatever town we were in, he would just go to the church. The two kind of tried to go hand in hand as he was constantly trying to explain why we didn't have a home. The traveling had to do with our financial circumstances and running away from our debt. Oh, the traveling didn't have anything to do with being in church. But what did he do as the choir director and why did it entail traveling around a lot? GROSS: Yeah, we'll will get to the other things. Would you describe what he did exactly and. GROSS: Now, I want to ask you, your father was an itinerant fundamentalist choir director. There was - yes, it was a very limited scope. Books were not pushed in our direction either. HECHE: I couldn't watch movie or TV, none of it, None of it. TERRY GROSS: What were you brought up as strictly as a fundamentalist, and if so, did that affect the kind of popular culture you were exposed to, the movies you could watch, the TV shows, records? She told Terry she grew up in a Christian fundamentalist family. We're going to listen back to Terry's 2000 interview with Anne Heche. Heche began a public same-sex relationship with Ellen DeGeneres at a time when such relationships were rare in Hollywood. You decided that I don't care about you anymore, and that is just not true.īIANCULLI: Anne Heche also starred in such TV series as "Hung," and played recurring characters on "Nip/Tuck" and "Ally McBeal." In the late 1990s. HECHE: (As Laura) You know, when I do call you, it's not enough. But does that make me a bad friend because I don't need you when you want me to need you? And I don't tell you every single thing that happens to me because I do have Frank. I don't call you 10 times a day like I used to. When something good or bad happens to you, you tell Frank. When something happens to me now, good or bad, I tell you. KEENER: (As Amelia) We used to talk about things. KEENER: (As Amelia) My problem? My problem, Laura, is that you're different. ![]() KEENER: (As Amelia) I don't want to talk about it. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "WALKING AND TALKING")ĬATHERINE KEENER: (As Amelia) You think I don't want you to get married? You know what? Brush your hair yourself. ![]() When Laura, played by Heche, gets engaged, their friendship suffers. They portray Laura and Amelia, two best friends since childhood. But I can do this.īIANCULLI: In the Nicole Holofcener independent film "Walking And Talking," Anne Heche played opposite Catherine Keener. You can't do that?įORD: (As Quinn Harris) No. You send them out into the wilderness with a pocket knife and a Q-Tip, and they build you a shopping mall. HECHE: (As Robin Monroe) Those guy guys, you know, those guys with skills? HECHE: (As Robin Monroe) Aren't you one of those guys? HECHE: (As Robin Monroe) Well, are you going to fix it? I mean, can't we reattach it somehow?įORD: (As Quinn Harris) Oh, sure. What happened?įORD: (As Quinn Harris) It crumpled the landing gear when we hit. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "SIX DAYS SEVEN NIGHTS")ĪNNE HECHE: (As Robin Monroe) Where are we?įORD: (As Quinn Harris) Somewhere between Makatea and Tahiti. She starred opposite Johnny Depp in "Donnie Brasco," Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman in "Wag The Dog" and Harrison Ford in the romantic comedy "Six Days Seven Nights." Here's a clip from that film in which she and Ford end up crashing on a remote tropical island after the plane he's piloting gets struck by lightning. Heche she got her start in the soap opera "Another World" while just out of high school. We're going to remember actress Anne Heche, who died Sunday after a highly publicized car crash. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University in New Jersey, in for Terry Gross.
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